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Wharton Dean Erika James and Lynn Perry Wooten.

‘The Prepared Leader’: Erika James and Lynn Perry Wooten

Wharton Dean Erika James and Simmons University President Lynn Perry Wooten discuss their new book, 'The Prepared Leader,' and how they found the motivation and the staying power during the pandemic to write it.

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Why livestream commerce is on the rise

Wharton’s Tom Robertson explains livestream commerce, one of the hottest trends in digital sales. There are great benefits to using the medium, but only if retailers can get it right.

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Smartphone factory assembly line.

Employee turnover costs more than you think

A new study from Wharton’s Ken Moon reveals the hidden cost of employee turnover by drawing a direct link between higher quit rates and product failure for a smartphone manufacturer.

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Joe Biden, Chuck Schumer, and Joe Manchin at a bill signing. Biden is sitting at a desk with the Presidential Seal. Schumer and Manchin are standing behind him. Behind all three are two American flags and a third other flag.

Understanding the Inflation Reduction Act

Penn experts explain the climate, health care, and economic aspects of the legislation that President Biden signed into law this week, plus the politics of getting it passed.

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Wharton graduate Saif Khawaja

A fish harvest that’s more sustainable—and tastier, too

December graduate Saif Khawaja’s President’s Sustainability Prize is helping him build Shinkei Systems, a company that has developed a robotics-based system for minimizing waste in the fishing industry.

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Six Wharton students riding bikes on a bridge at night.

Wharton students go international

Undergraduate students participated in a 10-day Wharton International Program to visit business and cultural sites in England and Ireland.

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Silk Road creator Ross Ulbricht is waiting for Trump to keep his word—and set him free

Leeza Garber of the Wharton School says that legal questions can’t be neatly isolated from ethical and political ones.

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NBC News

Trump has promised lower interest rates. That will be largely out of his control

Kent Smetters of the Wharton School says that the Federal Reserve doesn’t have as much control over mortgage rates and longer-term loans as it used to.

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Salon.com

Why planning for retirement is hard, and what to do about it

Research by Olivia Mitchell of the Wharton School and colleagues finds that low-income workers aren’t incentivized to learn about supplements to retirement income like IRAs and 401(k)s, since they tend to rely on and benefit more from fixed-income retirement sources like Social Security payments.

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Politico.com

Fed’s Powell says Trump can’t fire him

Christina Parajon Skinner of the Wharton School says that a presidential removal of the vice chair of the Federal Reserve wouldn’t necessarily be an affront to central bank independence.

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Bloomberg

What a reelected Trump can and can’t do to sway the Fed

Peter Conti-Brown of the Wharton School says that whether a president can remove the Federal Reserve chair is ambiguous because the law doesn’t explicitly provide “for cause” protection for the role.

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Bloomberg Law

JPMorgan opts out of political disclosure designation

The Zicklin Center for Governance and Business Ethics at the Wharton School has developed a new “model code” framework for companies to voluntarily disclose more about their political spending.

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